The Home Guard by ladymagpie

The Home Guard

All I can hear in my front garden at the moment is the constant tweet of a bird. Doesn't matter what time of the daylight hours it is, the sound was still there. It wasn't until I got my camera zoomed in that I found the noisey little blighter.

I know that the sparrows lived in the eaves of the house opposite me, in fact I have bird feeders in my front garden just for them. Yet I didn't realise that one of them always stands guard at the nest opening whilst the other birds go in and out with food for the young.

Later we will see the youngsters standing on the gutters deciding when to take that first flight. On another point, I'm glad they don't live under my eaves with the racket they make, Best viewed with the dark background.
great shot of the bird
April 20th, 2015  
he is so cute, well spotted and captured
April 20th, 2015  
What a little cutie! Nice capture, Heather!
April 20th, 2015  
Sussed! A great candid shot of a sparrow on guard duty.
April 20th, 2015  
Nice shot Heather - Fav
April 20th, 2015  
Bep
Well spotted, Heather. Nice capture.
April 20th, 2015  
Super capture. They like to sit on my guttering, too,and then start chirping at 7o'clock in the morning. Just as well I have to get up to see my grandson off to school.
April 20th, 2015  
Great shot.
April 20th, 2015  
Nice picture Heather ,will you tweet it on twitter
April 20th, 2015  
@philcameron59 The twitter is already twitting on Twitter Phil.
April 20th, 2015  
@juliac @ninaganci @susanalena @woofandweft1 @gijsje @carolmw @elisasaeter Thank you for your tweets and FAV's for this twitter.
April 20th, 2015  
Well captured Heather, looks like all the tweeting has dislodged the gutter bracket!
April 20th, 2015  
Super capture of this 'sparrer'!
April 20th, 2015  
a very cute capture! can't wait to see the little ones!
April 20th, 2015  
Just love your title - a real grumpy Capn Mainwaring look to him!
April 20th, 2015  
Cute shot...... yes the birds in my garden are being very vocal at the moment too!
April 20th, 2015  
Guard bird :)
April 20th, 2015  
A wonderful shot - you can tell he takes his job as lookout guard very seriously. This is a fav for a great attitude capture!
April 21st, 2015  
Cute capture!
April 21st, 2015  
Really well focussed capture.
April 21st, 2015  
I have some fond memories of chirping sparrows from many years ago. Funny how we remember certain things. :-)
April 22nd, 2015  
Adorable little guy, nice capture.
April 23rd, 2015  
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